I'm trying to make the default application for .asm file extension to be a shell script that I made. Basically I have a .sh script that runs MIPS Mars and I want to make it the default application to ...

I need to be able to access the applications menu using only the keyboard in unity as my mouse pointer has started to get stuck on the hand icon and I can't click anything.
As the keyboard shortcuts ...

Lately, I installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 in a virtual box to check it out, I am new to Gnome 3 and I was not comfortable with the stanard behaviour of it. I wanted it to be more Gnome2-ish, but I like ...

I'm working on an open source project and want to edit up one of the notifications for Ubuntu and install it into the Unity Panel (top black bar). How would I go about doing this? What files do I need ...

I use GNOME Flashback (Metacity) in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation because of performance (it's running in VirtualBox). In this mode, the menu bar of an application is usually placed below its title ...

I am having a difficult time to get the window buttons (minimize, close) back to its right place : right (LTR principles in the western world!). I saw many topics here about this and I also tried them ...

Sometimes, when using any program, and the menu items are refreshed, indicator-applet-appmenu will lose some of the menu items, place items in the wrong menu, not label the menu, or all three.
This ...

I know pressing alt+Tab a window of open apps pops up.
If I have an application open the pop up window is behind the open app so I can't see it making it essentially useless.
Is there any way where I ...

I am used to having the global menubar (i.e. app menus are not shown in the app window but in the top panel).
In Kubuntu 12.04 this worked very well, however upon installing Kubuntu 14.04 the menubar ...

OK, so here's the backstory.
Skype recently released version 4.3 on Ubuntu. It now has a menu bar, which it did not before. The only issue is that because it is 32-bit software, it's menu bar is not ...

The general solution which involves uninstalling various appmenu packages does not work for nautilus, its menu bar is still missing.
It does get a gear drop down menu button on the tool bar, but that ...

i ran the command int terminal
kget
it shows the following output
nitesh@nitesh:~$ kget
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kget is ...

Permanent global application menu somehow? Doesn’t have to be Unity, but should work in 12.04 or newer.
Permanent means: one which doesn’t disappear after two seconds.
Global application menu means: ...

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10, installed the gnome-2 mate desktop environment. One thing that annoys me the most is the network icon in the panel. Ok, so the network applet runs when the system starts. To ...

Hello! My question is about the stock market! I am trying to find a program that will display stock quotes on the top bar of ubuntu! By default in 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Ubuntu you had the ability to ...

I just switched from my company's version of eclipse to the stock Ubuntu version. However, when I did:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse
I found that my company's eclipse remained installed. I figured it ...

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10, and I have a problem with 3 text editors - Geany, Gedit and Sublime Text.
These 3 editors cannot access most of their menu items, including Open file and Save file.
The only ...

I disabled global appmenu and I'm now using GNOME Shell instead of Unity.
My giant love to Rhytmbox fails, because it don't show menu :(
How I can return classic menu? Recompile from sources?
Maybe ...

Just now I downloaded Zend studio and opened it. After some time I minimised it and I do not see it anywhere. If I try to reopen it, it will show that it is already been open and in use.
How to see ...

I'm running Kubuntu 13.10 and KDE on top of Openbox. A few days after upgrading to 13.10 and after a regular software update, all the applications normally listed in "Applications" in the KDE launcher ...

When I press Alt + F, Alt + E, or other mnemonic, the application menu is opened locally instead of globally. That seems to happen only on native gtk applications, because in Firefox and Thunderbird I ...

I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 and it is working fine, but my Eclipse menu bar is not integrating with the Unity global menu bar, thus, I can't perform any operation in Eclipse.
I have tried various ...

After upgrading into Ubuntu 13.10 i have problems with Aptana and Titanium IDE. Menu bar doesn't work normally. Only one menu works, in Aptana "Window" menu, in Titanium "Run" menu. Other menus looks ...

I moved my applications folder into the Home folder without thinking and now I am unable to move them back into the usr folder.
I want to move the applications folder back to where it was. How would ...

First of All I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 and I don't remember this problem has ever been produced by the previous releases.
Unity Global Menu Integration is missing not for all the applications but some ...